Raymond Charles "Crusoe" Robertson-Glasgow (15 July 1901 – 4 March 1965) was a Scottish cricketer and cricket writer.
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Full name | Raymond Charles Robertson-Glasgow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1901-07-15)15 July 1901 Murrayfield, Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 4 March 1965(1965-03-04) (aged 63) Buckhold, Berkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Crusoe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1920–1935 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1927–1933 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1920–1923 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 16 December 2008 |
Robertson-Glasgow was born in Edinburgh and educated at Charterhouse School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[1] He was a right-arm fast-medium bowler who played for Oxford University and Somerset. During his career, which lasted from 1920 to 1937, he took 464 wickets at 25.77 in first-class cricket, with best innings figures of 9 for 38 when Somerset defeated Middlesex at Lord's in June 1924.[2]
Convivial, popular and humorous, he subsequently won acclaim for his writing, in which his strong sense of humour shone through.[3] In 1933 he became cricket correspondent for the Morning Post. He later wrote for the Daily Telegraph, The Observer and the Sunday Times.
Robertson-Glasgow retired from regular cricket writing in 1953. He was Chairman of the Cricket Writers' Club in 1959.[4]
His nickname of "Crusoe" came, according to Robertson-Glasgow himself, from the Essex batsman Charlie McGahey. When his captain asked McGahey how he had been dismissed, he replied: "I was bowled by an old ----- I thought was dead two thousand years ago, called Robinson Crusoe."[5]
Robertson-Glasgow committed suicide during a snowstorm whilst in the grip of melancholic depression.[1][6]
Robertson-Glasgow's cricket books include:[7]
He also wrote the following non-cricket books:
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